"During the financial crisis after 2009 and the crisis of the Eurozone which ensued, German became the leader of the EU in an unprecedented way, which aroused suspicion about the emergence of a... Read more

“The inflow of migrants we dealt with in 2015 caused the biggest crisis of the functioning of the European Union since its establishment. EU institutions and governments of member states responded... Read more

Professor Krzysztof Szczerski will discuss the following issues: Continuity of the euro-atlantic direction of Polish foreign policy. What changes? The formula of conducting foreign policy: stronger... Read more

"Poland’s foreign policy is undergoing significant change. This change one can attribute to two factors: first, deep changes in Polish internal politics and second, dramatic shifts in European and... Read more

This seminar is jointly organised with the Latin American Centre. The Anti-totalitarian Utopia? Solidarność and the Global South during the 1980s "From the moment the independent Polish trade union... Read more

The Maidan was a second attempt of the Ukrainian society to put the country on a path of modernisation. Russia’s unexpected response to Ukraine’s revolution led to the most serious crisis in Europe... Read more

The 20th century brought a range of political projects charting a “third way” between liberalism and communism. Largely unexamined, however, were various European Catholics’ attempts to make Catholic... Read more

Veselin Vačkov, Ph.D. is a Bulgarian-born Czech journalist, currently the director of the oldest Czech daily newspaper Lidové noviny. Between 2000 and 2009, he was the paper’s editor-in-chief.... Read more

Adam Szostkiewicz is a Polish author, commentator on religion and politics, journalist and translator. He studied Polish language and literature in the early seventies at Jagiellonian University. He... Read more

Dr Anna Gwiazda will examine the quality of democracy in Poland from the collapse of communism in 1989 up to the 2011 parliamentary election. Drawing on democratic theory and comparative politics,... Read more

Prof. Dariusz Gawin (1964), historian of ideas, publicist. Head of the Civil Society Department at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). Deputy Director of... Read more

Dr Andrzej Polus is an assistant professor in the Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw and the President of the Polish Centre for African Studies. His research work focuses on:... Read more